Centaurea kartschianaScop.

WFO wfo-0000120211 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Centaurea kartschiana, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. a Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / 2013-06-26 / obs. 57006723
Centaurea kartschiana, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. b Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5794979
Centaurea kartschiana, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. c Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57006715
Centaurea kartschiana, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. d Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57006740
Centaurea kartschiana, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. e Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57006874
Centaurea kartschiana, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. f Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5794980
Centaurea kartschiana, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. g Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57006873
Centaurea kartschiana, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. h Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5794981

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Centaurea kartschiana is native: Italy, NW. Balkan Pen. ItalyNW. Balkan Pen.
Native distribution of Centaurea kartschiana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Italy ITA EUROPE
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acosta dalmatica (A.Kern.) Holub
  • Acosta kartschiana (Scop.) Soják
  • Centaurea carstiana Host
  • Centaurea carstiana f. carstiana
  • Centaurea carstiana subsp. carstiana
  • Centaurea cristata subsp. curictana Lovrić
  • Centaurea dalmatica A.Kern.
  • Centaurea dalmatica subsp. dalmatica
  • Centaurea dalmatica var. dalmatica
  • Centaurea kartschiana f. kartschiana
  • Centaurea kartschiana f. troglodytes Lovrić
  • Centaurea kartschiana var. coronata Lovrić
  • Centaurea kartschiana var. kartschiana

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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